I have been neglecting the music thread lately, but with good reason. I have been trying to avoid TORn like a sickness to avoid Hobbit spoilers ! I saw that pic of one of the wolves...then I saw the soundtrack ( or parts of it...) are available....and I simply won't have it !

I very much desire a pure experience, free of spoilers, from now until release night

Thankfully, I have my music to keep my brain occupied until then. A few recent favorites being...

That music line just grooves! I heard it once and liked it a lot. Later, I thought... what was that new Jack White song I liked? Can I find it if I google? And then I heard it again! lol. I thought, I sure hope Hamfast posts a music thread. I want to post this song. Wonder where he's been.

I first saw Jack White in the movie Cold Mountain. I knew nothing about him before that. I'm not a huge fan but I like a lot of what he does.

Two random thoughts on Jack.

One: in that video, I thought he looked a lot like Jimmy Fallon and now I want Jimmy to do a Jack White music parody.

What got me thinking about that, you ask yourself? Well, I heard some Jack White song a few years back that had a fairly strong folk/traditional vibe laid on it and I haven't been able to track it down. Remembering that got me thinking about another song I heard about the same time.

Folk/traditional songs are among my favorites and in the Morris Dance community, where singing happens often, British traditional songs are prevalent.

THEN I'll be twitching and overloaded on listening to a new soundtrack :D

In the meantime, I've just finished Harry Potter Goblet of Fire and started up on Order of the Phoenix. In the truck, I'm listening to The Broker audio book by John Grisham. It's almost a companion now!

I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.

We're performing it in 10 days & I'm the alto soloist, and I still don't quite have the "Qui Sedes" down pat, so I put it on and sing along several times a day.

Other than that, been enjoying a "fusion" program my little town's local radio station puts on every day. Yesterday it was rock ragas. The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.

Jack White! Now I can't recall if I heard his music first or saw him in Cold Mountain first--the former I think. Have you seen him in It Might Get Loud --with Jimmy Page and Edge? He's a very talented and interesting guy.

will you listen to The Hobbit soundtrack before you see the film ? I have the deluxe cd ordered on amazon, and noticed it should be delivered a few days before the film is released......those few days of having that soundtrack in hand are going to be rough, but I refuse to partake before I see it coupled with the visual majesty !

I'm really glad that he hasn't really failed to impress with how long he's been in the game. Really hope he remains a regular for the Marvel Cineverse, loved Cap's score as well as Avengers'.

I've actually been listening to a variety of superhero/comic book scores. I made a new mix recently that's a sort of 'best of' that kind of flows through the structure of a superhero movie. It has some recognizable cues from John Williams' Superman, Danny Elfman's Batman, and some lesser known like Henry Jackman's X-Men First Class and Jerry Goldsmith's The Shadow (which is a highly overshadowed film, by the way).

"You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."

Actually, I've been as anxious to finally hear the soundtrack as I am to see the film(s).

When the FotR soundtrack came out, it was well before the film's release. I had the most overwhelming, surreal experience when I heard the music before any imagery could affect it. I had track titles and the life within each piece of music that carried me off into pure imagination. I did that with all 3 films, and each time it was magical. Shore's music captures the story incredibly well!

I've been so antsy to experience that again with The Hobbit... a completely different story in a very familiar world. This is more of the "discovery" I've been banging on about. Once I hear it... see it... it will never be a "first time" again, and I'll fill it with my own noise (emotions, judgement, comparisons with book). I'm going to milk these 3 soundtracks and films for every "discovery" and "first time" I can pull outta them! It's gonna be GREAT! *twitch*

I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.

I very much wish to hear and see the entire presentation as PJ intended it.....but the urge to open that cd and pop it in the computer will be overwhelming ! I find it strange that studios release the music before the film comes out....I guess it has to do with distribution and getting the product to the shelves so it's ready to buy when the film is released.

( pssst....did you order the special edition too ? It looks gorgeous ! Just reading the track titles makes me giddy ! )

On all counts! Definitely got the special edition! And that's a very good point. Why release the music before the film? I'm very impressed with your fortitude in NOT having a peek at the music before seeing the movie! You're made of stronger stuff than me ;)

(pssst.... those track titles got me twitchy-giddy, too!!! )

OMG! Can I stand the strain!?

I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.

oh Magpie... I haven't listened to these spots for several days now... and those first few are as far as I've gotten. I couldn't believe that they've hit me harder now than before. How does Shore do it? I'm a mess... and he's really calmed my concerns expressed in my footer...

"I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world."

He's firmly planted me right back there again... right where I belong.

Thank you for this... :)

I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.

Here's something it makes me think of: Actually, it's part of something that has been on my mind for several days that I've read over and over again...

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Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder. It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for which his language had no name. All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever. He saw no colour but those he knew, gold and white and blue and green, but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them and made for them names new and wonderful.

I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.